Potential New Tick Species Discovered In Researcher's Nostril

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote]Tony Goldberg, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that he had an unwelcome stowaway from his trip to a national park in Uganda: a tick up his nose. Being a professional, Goldberg extracted the tick, and found that it doesn't match any other kind of tick on record. It looks as though he's found an entirely new species, next to his boogers.

Goldberg was studying the spread of diseases in the jungles and highlands of Kibale National Park, in western Uganda. When he got back to the states, he realized that there was a tick attached to the inside of his nostril--alarming, even for a scientist who studies ticks, if not terribly surprising. There are a few kinds of ticks, localized to that part of Uganda, that are known as "nose-ticks." Primarily of the genus Amblyomma, these ticks aim for the nose.[/quote]

[url]http://www.popsci.com/article/science/potential-new-tick-species-discovered-researchers-nostril?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=potential-new-tick-species-discovered-in-researchers-nostril[/url]

[CaptainObvious1]

Bet that must have ticked him off

[BuffaloBill]

So while there are people who try and find a new animal and take decades to find one, he just gets one [i]stuck in his nose[/i]?

[SexualShark]

ow

[Mikesword221]

There was a new species hiding under his nose all along!

[coup]

[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;42397269]So while there are people who try and find a new animal and take decades to find one, he just gets one [i]stuck in his nose[/i]?[/QUOTE]

If you're taking decades to discover a new species, you're doing it wrong. A researcher that lives near me found nearly a dozen new turtle species in a lake behind my house just by putting out a table for then to sit on in the sun.

[myon]

I hate ticks.
They're the asshole cousin of spiders, and silent killers.
Fuck ticks, man.

[Justjake274]

I'd be worried about more ticks being in there :l

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Justjake274;42397765]I'd be worried about more ticks being in there :l[/QUOTE]

Just gotta

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[alxnotorious]

This discovery is nothing to sneeze at.

[davidrb18]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;42397247][url]http://www.popsci.com/article/science/potential-new-tick-species-discovered-researchers-nostril?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=potential-new-tick-species-discovered-in-researchers-nostril[/url][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Tony Goldberg[/QUOTE]

Don't let /pol/ find out about this

[Passakkol]

Well now i'll have some troubles sleeping

[IMG]http://goo.gl/Ou1SsM[/IMG]

[Pardalis]

You know he loves his profession if he pulled the thing out of his nose and instead of throwing it away in disgust he went and examined it.